Title Information (lang="eng")
Title
The Lusitanian Episcopate in the 4th Century: Priscillian of Ávila and the Tensions between Bishops
Title Information (lang="por")
Title
O Episcopado Lusitano no Século IV: Prisciliano de Ávila e as Tensões entre os Bispos
Name: Personal (orcid) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/identifiers/orcid.html", valueURI="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3315-6514")
Name Part
Jorge, Ana Maria C. M.
affiliation
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
author
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
articles
Origin Information
Date Issued
Winter 2006
Date Issued (keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
2006-12
Language (usage="primary")
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
por
Physical Description
Extent
15 p.
digitalOrigin
born digital
Abstract (lang="eng")
This paper looks at Priscillian of Ávila and the tensions that existed in the 4th century between bishops at the heart of the Lusitanian episcopate, which covered part of the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It does not attempt to offer an exhaustive analysis of the various aspects of Priscillianism; instead it takes a close look at those which it is possible to single out from what we know of his actual work. Priscillian helps us to achieve a better understanding of the Christianization process and the orthodox/heterodox debate in late antiquity. He also provides insight into the complexity of a period which precludes any arbitrary simplification and which, despite a search for unity, proves to be a time of opposition and confrontation. Against a background of the progressive “Constantinization” of the church, bishops become key figures who centralize the main forces of the day. At the same time, we become aware of the coercive measures that lay authorities introduced as Christianity spread. The confrontation between rival Christian communities—Priscillianist and Nicean Catholicism—reveals an important facet of the position adopted by Christians in their relations with civil authorities, as well as the close ties between Christianity, the top of the ecclesiastical hierarchy and the Empire. It also gives a clear picture of the work of the bishop of a city in antiquity, in which the emphasis was on the militant view of the kerigma.
Abstract (lang="por")
O presente artigo versa sobre Prisciliano de Ávila e as tensões no seio do episcopado da Lusitânia, região situada a sudoeste da Península Ibérica, no século IV. Este trabalho não pretende ser uma análise exaustiva do priscilianismo mas antes um ponto de partida para o conhecimento da acção concreta do bispo de Ávila no processo de cristianização peninsular. A sua acção é, aliás, importante para compreendermos o processo de cristianização e o debate ortodoxia/heterodoxia na Antiguidade tardia, bem como a complexidade de um período que contraria toda a simplificação arbitrária e se revela como um tempo de oposições e confrontos, apesar da procura persistente de unidade por parte do episcopado. Num contexto de “constantinisação” progressiva da Igreja, no século IV, o bispo torna-se uma figura central cuja acção revela de forma ímpar as medidas de coacção exercidas pelo poder secular durante a difusão do cristianismo. O confronto entre comunidades cristãs rivais – priscilianista e católico niceana – revelam não só uma faceta do discurso cristão na sua relação com o poder civil mas também os laços estreitos que uniam o cristianismo e a alta hierarquia do Império na Cidade antiga, assim como o carácter militante no anúncio do Kerigma.
Part
Part Detail: volume
Part Number
4
Part Caption
vol.
Part Detail: issue
Part Number
2
Part Caption
no.
Part Detail: article
Part Number
2
Part Caption
no.
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
History
Topic
Religious aspects
Topic
Christianity
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Monasticism and religious orders
Topic
History
Temporal
Early church, ca. 30-600
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
Iberian Peninsula
Topic
History
Temporal
4th century
Subject (LCSH)
Name: Personal
Name Part
Priscillian, Bishop of Avila
Name Part: Date
approximately 350-385
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Church history
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Bishops
Related Item: Host
Title Information (lang="eng")
Title
e-Journal of Portuguese History
Part Number
vol. 4, no. 2
Identifier: DOI
10.26300/c04m-9d26